Lynn Redgrave
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Born | Lynn Rachel Redgrave 8 March 1943 Marylebone,London, England |
Died | 2 May 2010 Kent, Connecticut,U.S. | (aged 67)
Resting place | St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery Lithgow, New York,U.S. |
Citizenship | United Kingdom United States |
Alma mater | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1962–2010 |
Spouse | |
Children | 3 |
Parents | |
Family | Vanessa Redgrave(sister) Natasha Richardson(niece) Joely Richardson(niece) |
Website | www |
Lynn Rachel RedgraveOBE(8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was a British-American actress. She won twoGolden Globe Awardsduring her career.
A member of theRedgrave familyof actors, Lynn trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s, she had appeared in several films, includingTom Jones(1963) andGeorgy Girl(1966), which won her aNew York Film Critics Awardand aGolden Globe Awardfor Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy, as well as earning her a nomination for theAcademy Award for Best Actress.
Redgrave made herBroadwaydebut in 1967 and performed in several stage productions in New York City while making frequent returns to London'sWest End.Redgrave performed with her sisterVanessainThree Sistersin London and in the title role ofBaby Jane Hudsonin a television production ofWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane?in 1991.
Redgrave made a return to cinema in the late 1990s, in films such asShine(1996) andGods and Monsters(1998), for which she received her second Academy Award nomination and won a Golden Globe Award For Best Supporting Actress. Lynn Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for all of the 'Big Four' American entertainment awards (Emmy,Grammy,OscarandTony,collectively known when all four have been won as "EGOT") – without winning any of them.[1]
Early life and theatrical family[edit]
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Redgrave was born inMarylebone,London, the youngest child of actorsSir Michael RedgraveandRachel Kempson.Her sister is actressVanessa Redgrave;her brother was actor and political activistCorin Redgrave.She was the aunt of writer/directorCarlo Gabriel Neroand of actressesJoely Richardson,Jemma RedgraveandNatasha Richardson,and the sister-in-law of directorTony Richardson,actressKika Markhamand Italian actorFranco Nero.Her grandfather wassilent screenleading manRoy Redgrave.
Career[edit]
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After training at London'sCentral School of Speech and Drama,Redgrave made her professional debut in a 1962 production ofA Midsummer Night's Dreamat theRoyal Court Theatre.[2]Following a tour ofBilly Liarandrepertorywork inDundee,she made herWest Enddebut at theHaymarket,inN. C. Hunter'sThe Tulip TreewithCelia JohnsonandJohn Clements.
She was invited to join theNational Theatrefor its inaugural season at theOld Vic,working with such directors asLaurence Olivier,Franco ZeffirelliandNoël Cowardin roles like Rose inThe Recruiting Officer,Barblin inAndorra,Jackie inHay Fever,Kattrin inMother Courage,Miss Prue inLove for Loveand Margaret inMuch Ado About Nothing,which kept her busy for the next three years. During that time, she appeared in films such asTom Jones(1963),Girl with Green Eyes(1964),The Deadly Affair(1966), and the title role inGeorgy Girl(also 1966, and which featured her mother, Rachel Kempson). For the last of these roles, she gained theNew York Film Critics Award,the Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. In 1967, she made her Broadway debut inBlack ComedywithMichael CrawfordandGeraldine Page.London appearances includedMichael Frayn'sThe Two of UswithRichard Briersat theGarrick,David Hare'sSlagat the Royal Court andBorn Yesterday,directed byTom StoppardatGreenwichin 1973.
Redgrave returned to Broadway in 1974, inMy Fat Friend.There soon followedKnock KnockwithCharles Durning,Mrs. Warren's Profession(for aTonynomination) withRuth GordonandSaint Joan.During the 1985–86 season she appeared withRex Harrison,Claudette ColbertandJeremy BrettinAren't We All?,and withMary Tyler MooreinA. R. Gurney'sSweet Sue.In 1983, Redgrave playedCleopatrain an American television version ofAntony and CleopatraoppositeTimothy Dalton.She was inMisalliancein Chicago withIrene Worth(earning the Sarah Siddons and Joseph Jefferson awards),Twelfth Nightat the American Shakespeare Festival,California Suite,The King and I,Hellzapoppin',Les Dames du Jeudi,Les Liaisons DangereusesandThe Cherry Orchard.In 1988, she narrated a dramatised television documentary,Silent Mouse,which told the story of the creation of the Christmas carolSilent Night.She starred withStewart GrangerandRicardo Montalbánin a Hollywood production ofDon Juan in Hellin the early winter of 1991.
With her sister Vanessa as Olga, she returned to the London stage playing Masha inThree Sistersin 1991 at theQueen's Theatre,London, and later played the title role in a television production ofWhatever Happened to Baby Jane?again with her sister. Highlights of her early film career also includeThe National Health,Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask),The Happy HookerandGetting It Right.In the United States she was seen in such television series asTeachers Only,House Calls,CentennialandChicken Soup.She also starred inBBCproductions such asThe Faint-Hearted Feminist,A Woman Alone,Death of a Son,Calling the ShotsandFighting Back.She played Broadway again inMoon Over Buffalo(1996) with co-starRobert Gouletand starred in the world premiere ofTennessee Williams'The Notebook of Trigorin,based onAnton Chekhov'sThe Seagull.She won theDrama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Playfor her performance inTalking Heads.
Redgrave became well-known in the United States after appearing in the television seriesHouse Calls,for which she received an Emmy nomination. She was fired from the series after she insisted on bringing her child to rehearsals so as to continue a breastfeeding schedule. A lawsuit ensued but was dismissed a few years later. Following that, she appeared in a long-running series of television commercials forH. J. Heinz Company,then the manufacturer of the weight loss foods forWeight Watchers,a Heinz subsidiary. Her signature line for the ads was "This Is Living, Not Dieting!". She wrote a book of her life experiences with the same title,[3]which included a selection of Weight Watchers recipes. The autobiographical section later became the basis of her one-woman playShakespeare for My Father.
In 1989, she appeared on Broadway inLove Letterswith her husbandJohn Clark,and thereafter they performed the play around the country, on one occasion for the jury in theO. J. Simpsoncase. In 1993, she appeared on Broadway in the one-woman playShakespeare for My Father,which Clark produced and directed. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. In 1993, she was elected president of thePlayers' Club.
In 2005, Redgrave appeared atQuinnipiac UniversityandConnecticut Collegein the playSisters of the Garden,about the sistersFannyand Rebekka Mendelssohn andNadiaandLili Boulanger.[4]She was also reported to be writing a one-woman play about her battle with breast cancer and her 2003mastectomy,based on her bookJournal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancerwith photos by her daughter Annabel and text by Redgrave herself.[5]
In September 2006, she appeared inNightingale,the U.S. premiere of her new one-woman play based upon her maternal grandmother Beatrice, at Los Angeles'Mark Taper Forum.She also performed the play in May 2007 at Hartford Stage inHartford, Connecticut.In 2007, she appeared in an episode ofDesperate Housewivesas Dahlia Hainsworth, the mother ofSusan Delfino's boyfriend Ian Hainsworth.
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In 2009, she was inducted into theAmerican Theatre Hall of Fame.[6]
Voice work[edit]
Redgrave narrated approximately 20 audiobooks, includingPrince Caspian: The Chronicles of NarniabyC. S. Lewisfor Harper Audio[7]andInkheartbyCornelia Funkefor Listening Library.[8]
Personal life[edit]
On 2 April 1967, Lynn Redgrave married actorJohn Clark.[9][10]Together they had three children. Her marriage to Clark was dissolved in 2000, two years after he revealed that he had had an affair with her personal assistant, Nicolette Hannah, and that Lynn's supposed grandson Zachary was in fact Clark's own son by Hannah, who had married (and subsequently divorced) their son Benjamin.[11]The divorce proceedings were acrimonious and became front-page news, with Clark alleging that Redgrave had also been unfaithful.[12][13]
On 5 January 1998, Redgrave became anaturalised citizenof the United States.[14]
Redgrave was appointed anOfficer of the Order of the British Empirein the2002 New Year Honoursfor services to acting and the cinema and to the British community in Los Angeles.[15]
Death[edit]
Redgrave discussed her health problems associated withbulimiaand breast cancer. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2002, had amastectomyin January 2003 and underwentchemotherapy.[16]She ultimately died from the cancer[17]at her home inKent, Connecticuton 2 May 2010, aged 67.[18]
Redgrave's funeral was held on 8 May 2010 at the FirstCongregational Churchin Kent. She was interred in St Peter's Episcopal Cemetery in the hamlet ofLithgow, New York,where her mother Rachel Kempson and her niece Natasha Richardson are also interred.[19]
In 2012, theFolger Shakespeare Libraryacquired Redgrave's collection of personal papers and photographs.[20]
Legacy[edit]
In 2001, Lynn Redgrave received a LIVING LEGEND honor at The WINFemme Film Festival and The Women's Network Image Awards.[21]
In 2013, the Bleecker Street Theater (Off-Broadway) was renamed theLynn Redgrave Theater.[22][23]
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1960 | Shoot to Kill | Minor Role | Uncredited |
1963 | Tom Jones | Susan | |
1964 | Girl with Green Eyes | Baba Brennan | |
1966 | Georgy Girl | Georgy | |
1966 | The Family Way | Uncredited | |
1967 | The Deadly Affair | Virgin | |
1967 | Smashing Time | Yvonne | |
1969 | The Virgin Soldiers | Phillipa Raskin | |
1970 | Last of the Mobile Hot Shots | Myrtle Kane | |
1971 | Long Live Your Death | Mary O'Donnell | AKA,Don't Turn the Other Cheek! |
1972 | Every Little Crook and Nanny | Miss Poole | |
1972 | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) | The Queen | |
1973 | The National Health | Nurse Betty Martin | |
1975 | The Happy Hooker | Xaviera Hollander | |
1976 | The Big Bus | Camille Levy | |
1980 | Sunday Lovers | Lady Davina | (segment "An Englishman's Home" ) |
1987 | Morgan Stewart's Coming Home | Nancy Stewart | |
1989 | Getting It Right | Joan | |
1989 | Midnight | Midnight | 1990The Great American Sex Scandal(film) Abby Greyhouwsky |
1996 | Shine | Gillian | |
1998 | Gods and Monsters | Hanna | |
1998 | The Hairy Bird | Miss McVane | AKA,All I Wanna Do |
1999 | Touched | Carrie | |
1999 | The Annihilation of Fish | Poinsettia | |
2000 | The Simian Line | Katharine | |
2000 | The Next Best Thing | Helen Whittaker | |
2000 | Deeply | Celia | |
2000 | How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | Edna | |
2000 | Lion of Oz | Wicked Witch of the East | Voice |
2001 | Venus and Mars | Emily Vogel | |
2001 | My Kingdom | Mandy | |
2002 | Spider | Mrs. Wilkinson | |
2002 | Unconditional Love | Nola Fox | |
2002 | The Wild Thornberrys Movie | Cordelia Thornberry | Voice |
2002 | Hansel and Gretel | Woman / Witch | |
2002 | Anita and Me | Mrs. Ormerod | |
2003 | Charlie's War | Grandma Lewis | |
2003 | Peter Pan | Aunt Millicent | |
2004 | Kinsey | Final Interview Subject | |
2005 | The White Countess | Olga Belinskya | |
2007 | The Jane Austen Book Club | Mama Sky | |
2009 | Confessions of a Shopaholic | Drunken Lady at Ball | |
2009 | My Dog Tulip | Nancy / Greengrocer's Wife | Voice |
Television[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1965 | Sunday Out of Season | Elaine | TV film |
1966 | Comedy Playhouse | Sheila | Episode: "The End of the Tunnel" |
1966 | Love Story | Rosemarie | Episode: "Ain't Afraid to Dance" |
1966 | Armchair Theatre | Polly Barlow | Episode: "Pretty Polly" |
1967 | Armchair Theatre | Ivy Toft Caroline |
Episode: "I Am Osango" Episode: "What's Wrong with Humpty Dumpty?" |
1968 | Love Story | Mary Downey | Episode: "The Egg on the Face of the Tiger" |
1971 | Play of the Month | Helena | Episode: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
1973 | Play of the Month | Eliza Doolittle | Episode: "Pygmalion" |
1974 | Vienna 1900 | Berta Garlan | Episode: "The Spring Sonata" |
1974 | The Turn of the Screw | Miss Jane Cubberly | TV film |
1976 | Kojak | Claire | Episode: "A Hair-Trigger Away" |
1978 | Disco Beaver from Outer Space | Dr. Van Helsing | TV film |
1978–1979 | Centennial | Charlotte Buckland Seccombe | TV miniseries |
1979 | Sooner or Later | The teacher | TV film |
1979 | Beggarman, Thief | Kate Jordache | TV miniseries |
1979–1981 | House Calls | Ann Anderson | Main role (41 episodes) |
1980 | Gauguin the Savage | Mette Gad | TV film |
1980 | The Seduction of Miss Leona | Miss Leona de Vose | TV film |
1982 | Rehearsal for Murder | Monica Welles | TV film |
1982 | CBS Schoolbreak Special | Sarah Cotter | Episode: "The Shooting" |
1982 | The Love Boat | Patti White | 1 episode |
1982–1983 | Teachers Only | Diana Swanson | Main role (21 episodes) |
1983 | Hotel | Cathy Knight | Episode: "Relative Loss" |
1983 | Antony and Cleopatra | Cleopatra | TV film |
1984 | Fantasy Island | Kristen Robbins | 1 episode |
1984 | The Fainthearted Feminist | Martha | TV series |
1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Abby Benton Freestone | Episode: "It's a Dog's Life" |
1985 | The Bad Seed | Monica Breedlove | TV film |
1986 | My Two Loves | Marjorie Lloyd | TV film |
1986 | Hotel | Audrey Beck | Episode: "Restless Nights" |
1988 | A Woman Alone | The Woman | TV film |
1989 | Screen Two | Pauline Williams | Episode: "Death of a Son" |
1989 | Chicken Soup | Maddie Peerce | Main role (12 episodes) |
1990 | Silent Mouse | Narrator | TV film |
1990 | The Great American Sex Scandal | Abby Greyhouwsky | TV film |
1991 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Jane Hudson | TV film |
1993 | Calling the Shots | Maggie Donnelly | |
1997 | Toothless | Rogers | TV film |
1997 | Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan | Monica Brannigan | TV film |
1998 | White Lies | Inga Kolneder | TV film |
1998–2001 | Rude Awakening | Trudy Frank | Main role (55 episodes) |
1999 | The Nanny | Herself | Episode: "The Yummy Mummy" |
1999 | Different | Amanda Talmadge | TV film |
1999 | A Season for Miracles | Hon. Judge Nancy Jakes | TV film |
2001 | Varian's War | Alma Werfel-Mahler | TV film |
2002 | My Sister's Keeper | Helen Margaret Chapman | TV film |
2003 | The Wild Thornberrys | Cordelia | Voice, Episodes: "Sir Nigel: Parts 1 & 2" |
2006–2007 | Eloise: The Animated Series | Nanny | Voice, Regular role (6 episodes) |
2007 | Desperate Housewives | Dahlia Hainsworth | Episode: "Dress Big" |
2007 | Nurses | Peggy Rice | TV film |
2009 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Emily Huntford | Episode: "Folie a Deux" |
2009 | Ugly Betty | Olivia Guillemette | Episode: "The Butterfly Effect: Part 1" |
Theatre[edit]
Year | Title | Role | House | Notes |
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1962 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Helena | Royal Court | |
1962 | Billy Liar | Dundee | ||
1962 | The Tulip Tree | Haymarket | ||
1963 | The Recruiting Officer | Rose | National | |
1963 | Andorra | Barblin | National | |
1963 | Hamlet | |||
1964 | Hay Fever | Jackie | National | |
1965 | Much Ado About Nothing | Margaret | National | |
1965–1966 | Love for Love | |||
1967 | Black Comedy/ The White Liars | Carol Melkett | National | |
1970 | The Two of Us | |||
1971 | Slag | |||
1974 | My Fat Friend | Vicky | ||
1976 | Mrs. Warren's Profession | Vivie Warren | ||
1976 | Knock Knock | Joan | Replacement | |
1976 | Misalliance | |||
1977–1978 | Saint Joan | Joan | ||
1985 | Aren't We All? | Hon. Mrs. W. Tatham | ||
1987 | Sweet Sue | Susan Too | ||
1989–1990 | Love Letters | Melissa Gardner | Replacement | |
1992 | A Little Hotel on the Side | Angelique Pinglet | ||
1992 | The Master Builder | Mrs. Aline Solness | ||
1993–1994 | Shakespeare for My Father | Performer | ||
1995–1996 | Moon Over Buffalo | Charlotte Hay | Replacement | |
2001 | Noises Off | |||
2002 | Company | Joanne | ||
2005 | The Constant Wife | Mrs. Culver | ||
2006 | The Lost Colony (play) | Queen Elizabeth I | Waterside Theatre at Fort Raleigh | |
2009 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Lady Bracknell | Touring |
Awards and nominations[edit]
Year | Award | Category | Production | Result |
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1965 | BAFTA Film Award | Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles | Girl with Green Eyes | Nominated |
1966 | NYFCC Award | Best Actress | Georgy Girl | Won |
1967 | BAFTA Film Award | Best British Actress | Nominated | |
Golden Globe Award | Most Promising Newcomer - Female | Nominated | ||
Golden Globe Award | Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy | Won | ||
Academy Award | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated | ||
Laurel Awards | Female New Face | Nominated | ||
1968 | KCFCC Award | Best Actress | Georgy Girl | Won |
1976 | Tony Award | Best Actress in a Play | Mrs. Warren's Profession | Nominated |
1981 | Golden Globe Award | Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series - Musical/Comedy | House Calls | Nominated |
Primetime Emmy Award | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Nominated | ||
1983 | Daytime Emmy Award | Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming | CBS Afternoon Playhouse | Nominated |
1993 | Tony Award | Best Actress in a Play | Shakespeare for My Father | Nominated |
1997 | BAFTA Film Award | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role | Shine | Nominated |
Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by a Cast | Nominated | ||
1998 | Gemini Award | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries | White Lies | Nominated |
1999 | Satellite Award | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Drama | Gods and Monsters | Nominated |
Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role | Nominated | ||
BAFTA Film Award | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated | ||
Independent Spirit Awards | Best Supporting Female | Won | ||
Academy Award | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated | ||
Golden Globe Award | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | Won | ||
2000 | ALFS Award | British Supporting Actress of the Year | Won | |
2003 | Palm Springs International Film Festival | Career Achievement Award | Won | |
2006 | Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award | Best Solo Performance | Nightingale | Won |
Tony Award | Best Actress in a Play | The Constant Wife | Nominated | |
2007 | Grammy Award | Best Spoken Word Album for Children | The Witches | Nominated |
References[edit]
- ^Potter, Steve (3 August 2016)."City Scene: Gone but not forgotten".The Telegraph.Alton, Illinois:Civitas Media.Retrieved30 November2016.
...Actress Lynn Redgrave...credited as the only person to have been nominated for all of the "Big Four" awards...without ever winning any of them.
- ^The production was not well reviewed in general, butBernard Levin,writing in the LondonDaily Expressunder the headlineAre there any more at home like Lynn Redgrave?,wrote that her performance as Helena was "an outrageous and unforgivable atrocity on the poor Bard, and it is utterly delightful and almost wholly successful. And this astonishing infant is only 18 years old!" (25 January 1962). The fact that the critic Levin was actively courting Redgrave's elder sister Vanessa may have been significant.
- ^Redgrave, Lynn.This Is Living,Dutton, May 1991.ISBN978-0-87923-333-4.
- ^Eleanor Charles (27 March 2005)."A Redgrave in Four Roles".The New York Times.Retrieved24 April2008.
- ^"Breast Cancer Research Foundation".Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
- ^"Playbill.com".Archived fromthe originalon 3 December 2013.
- ^Prince Caspian– via audible.com.
- ^Inkheart– via audible.com.
- ^"Lynn Redgrave Wed to John Clark".The New York Times.3 April 1967.Retrieved2 August2010.
- ^"Newsfronts: New actor in the cast of Redgraves".Life.7 April 1967.
- ^Coveney, Michael (3 May 2010)."Lynn Redgrave obituary".The Guardian.London.Retrieved2 August2010.
- ^"Lynn Redgrave obituary".The Daily Telegraph.London. 3 May 2010.Archivedfrom the original on 12 January 2022.Retrieved2 August2010.
- ^"Lynn Redgrave obituary".The Times.London. 4 May 2010. Archived fromthe originalon 25 May 2010.Retrieved2 August2010.
- ^Actress Lynn Redgrave becomes a U.S. citizen,upi.com. Accessed 27 December 2023.
- ^"No. 56430".The London Gazette(Supplement). 31 December 2001. p. 24.
- ^"Actress Lynn Redgrave has died at age 67".Archived fromthe originalon 6 May 2010.Retrieved3 May2010.
- ^"Actress Lynn Redgrave dies at 67".BBC News.3 May 2010.
- ^McLellan, Dennis (4 May 2010)."Lynn Redgrave dies at 67; member of famed acting family".Los Angeles Times.Retrieved17 January2022.
- ^"Family, friends say goodbye to Redgrave",CBC News,8 May 2010
- ^Judkis, Maura (25 April 2012)."Lynn Redgrave archive acquired by Folger Shakespeare Library".The Washington Post.
- ^"Elizabeth Taylor, Selena Gomez Honored at WIN Awards".Look to the Stars.20 January 2011.Retrieved6 December2015.
- ^Off Broadway Theater To Be Named After Lynn RedgraveThe New York Times. 19 March 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
- ^"45 Bleecker Street Theatre Becomes The Lynn Redgrave Theatre".1 June 2013.
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